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September 11, 2023:
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Clubhouse is evolving to being a messaging app, rather than a live chat app. The new app lets you leave voice notes to one another, a little like Anchor in 2016, perhaps?
April 28, 2023:
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Clubhouse has made more than half of its total staff redundant. See our people section, below, for more layoffs from other companies.
April 4, 2023:
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Bought in March 2021 for $57mn, Spotify is to shut down its Clubhouse-clone, Spotify Live. Some live shows will continue as podcasts. It joins other Clubhouse-clones Reddit Talk (closed last month), and Facebook's live audio rooms (closed in December).
March 29, 2023:
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How Long Gone has joined the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Hosted by Chris Black and Jason Stewart, How Long Gone has been hailed as "the podcast everyone wants to appear on" (The Guardian) and "a clubhouse for the chattering classes" (The New York Times). The show has also announced more dates for its tour in the US and UK.
March 10, 2023:
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Reddit's own Clubhouse clone, Reddit Talk, is to close. The system will wind down on March 21. It's a casualty of the closure of a third-party tool that Reddit used for audio.
October 31, 2022:
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Twitter has paused the sale of Ticketed Spaces, their equivalent to a paid Clubhouse room. Meanwhile, Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison spoke at a conference only last week.
August 11, 2022:
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Clubhouse is to undergo a "huge evolution" to add individual communities, or "Houses", to the app.
August 1, 2022:
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Remote recording tool Riverside has launched a number of updates: using your iOS device as a second camera; mobile support for video recording up to 4K; and the Clubhouse-like Live Call-in comes to Android.
July 11, 2022:
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Reddit is to start live audio Talks, much like Twitter or Clubhouse. The difference, says Arielle Nissenblatt in a twitter thread, is that Talks are promoted to people who follow subreddits on the topic your talk is about: which could be millions of people. There's a form to fill out if you're interested in hosting them.
June 6, 2022:
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Top executives are deserting Clubhouse. Four senior leaders have quit the company in the past two months, as downloads slow dramatically.
April 14, 2022:
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Meanwhile, Clubhouse, another live audio app, now has dark mode.
March 16, 2022:
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Clubhouse is testing a 'wave bar' in its app, where you can easily see who is online and wave to start a public room with them.
March 9, 2022:
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Amazon has released Amp, a "live radio app" seen as their version of Clubhouse or TwitterSpaces. It's available in the US for iOS users only in a waitlist; it'll enable you to DJ your own music show (with "tens of millions of licensed songs" they say), and you can take callers, too. Amp's website is live, and you can download the app to join the waitlist (although we're told one code that works is
twitter but we suspect it won't work for long). You don't have to use music; you could use the tool for a Clubhouse-like experience too; the app will alert your followers to upcoming shows. Guy Raz is doing a show for it; so is Nicki Minaj.
February 15, 2022:
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Delegate day passes have just gone on sale for The Podcast Show 2022, coming to London in May. May 25-26 promises an international festival with a number of inspirational speakers including Jen Sargent, CEO of Wondery, Miranda Sawyer, audio critic from The Observer, Ross Adams, CEO of Acast, and Steph Simon, Head of Community & Creators at Clubhouse. Additionally, right through the week of May 23-29, you'll be able to watch your favourite shows live on stage in a number of different venues. You can get your day passes today - use promo code
PODNEWS for 20% off a limited number of day passes. Podnews is a media partner (and we'll be there).
January 26, 2022:
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"Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value". John Lee Dumas speaks about his podcast, whether he's a fan of Clubhouse, and effortlessly turns this podcast interview into a sales opportunity. Learn from the master!
January 7, 2022:
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Clubhouse is rolling out web listening "as an experiment in the US" allowing anyone to listen to a Clubhouse room without downloading an app. They're also adding new sharing functionality, and claim 2.6m downloads of the app in December (up from 1.8m in November).
December 17, 2021:
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Steven Goldstein looks at audio's numbers in 2021. Clubhouse has dropped 80% of its daily users since February; the average number of podcasts listened-to each week is 5.1.
December 8, 2021:
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Stitcher is running the Stitcher Winter Podcast Ball on Clubhouse on Dec 14. As part of that, they're running a 'pitch your podcast' contest to get a week of promotion in the Stitcher app, and a gift from Podswag. You can enter the contest here.
December 1, 2021:
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Business Insider posts an article entitled "Inside the rise and fall of Clubhouse, a pandemic poster child of VC-backed hype now hobbled by 'drama rooms,' unhappy creators, dwindling users, and dubious advertisers". It claims daily average users are down 80% since February. It does, though, conclude: "Clubhouse likely has enough money to see it through years of product updates and experimentation," and the company has attracted $110m of funding.
November 17, 2021:
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Oprah Winfrey was on Clubhouse, but only 23,000 people listened. Or only 41,500 people, according to a spokesperson, who claims a "glitch". Meanwhile apps or logins are no longer required to listen on Spotify Greenroom. And - genuine question - has anyone heard from Mark Cuban's Fireside Chat recently?
November 10, 2021:
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Clubhouse launched Replays - recording for Clubhouse rooms. You can download the audio: it appears to be a 56kbps stereo AAC file, at 48kHz samplerate.
October 26, 2021:
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Clubhouse has added pinned links, allowing links to be posted at the top of a room. This would be especially good to share links to your podcast's website, for example.
October 14, 2021:
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New from iHeartRadio is Real-Time Crime, presented by "Top Clubhouse Creator Leah Lamarr" and a TV personality Teddi Mellencamp. The two will be joined by investigative professionals who will help listeners understand what goes into a high-profile case.
October 7, 2021:
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Watch out, Zoom - Clubhouse has added private Clubhouse links, allowing you to share links to private rooms.
October 1, 2021:
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Clubhouse has announced a forthcoming feature that will let you record your Clubhouse rooms. "Replays" will allow you to download your audio, as well as make it available on-demand in the app. The company also added three new features - a search engine (it's in the explore tab for now); a clip creator; and the release of spatial audio for Android users.
September 29, 2021:
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Clubhouse has been criticised for not delivering promised sponsorship. The Verge reports that the Creator First program didn't deliver meaningful stats, promotion, or sponsors. “We’re better off turning this into a podcast, instead of doing it on Clubhouse”, one creator is quoted as saying.
September 24, 2021:
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Clubhouse has added Wave, an equivalent of catching someone in the hallway of a conference and having a quick chat between sessions.
September 6, 2021:
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Last week, Clubhouse mentioned that there are 700,000 clubhouse rooms a day on the service. They've added that those rooms last 70 minutes on average.
September 3, 2021:
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Callin, a social podcast app, has raised $12m in funding. It appears to be a Clubhouse-like service; Axios says it's "a single software stack for recording, editing, transcription and distribution, plus an added twist of live audience participation".
September 1, 2021:
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Amazon is reportedly building a Clubhouse/TwitterSpaces/Greenroom clone, focusing on live music.
August 30, 2021:
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Clubhouse has added "spatial audio" - for iOS users initially - to make speakers sound as if they're spaced throughout the room. Leah Lamarr is the new app icon. The app is seeing more than 700,000 rooms created each day, the company says, up from 300,000 in May.
July 23, 2021:
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Clubhouse no longer has a waitlist, and is open to everyone. It's also got a nice new logo, and a fancy website. Ed Zitron isn't a fan, calling it a stinker.
July 15, 2021:
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Clubhouse has added a new messaging system, called Backchannel. It allows speakers to get questions from the audience and chat with co-hosts without disrupting the room, and should be especially useful to podcasters.
July 2, 2021:
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Use Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces? Headliner is working on a tool to turn your recordings into short promo videos for social media. You can sign up for early access here.
June 30, 2021:
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News from the future: Clubhouse is to launch its own messaging service, called Backchannel. Facebook is developing an Augmented Reality hat.
June 23, 2021:
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If Clubhouse isn't your thing, what are the alternative audio platforms for podcasters to use? Podcast Movement's Jared Easley looks at Greenroom, Fireside, Stereo, Yibber and Leher (and others).
June 22, 2021:
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Facebook has launched its in-app podcast experience today. To get listed, you need an invite directly from Facebook: and they'll only play in the US. We gather that Buzzsprout, The Joe Budden Podcast, and Jam Street Media were some of those chosen to get podcasts set up on their pages. Facebook's Clubhouse clone, Live Audio Rooms has also launched: that, again, is for the US only, and live rooms are only available on iOS. "Later this summer, we’ll roll out additional features, like captions and the ability to create and share short clips of a podcast," says Fidji Simo, Head of Facebook App.
June 17, 2021:
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Spotify has released the Spotify Greenroom app. The app, similar to Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces, includes recording capabilities. It's available on iOS and Android. We've added support for it in our Podevents website.
June 8, 2021:
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Clubhouse "is dying", says a Forbes contributor. The writer suggests it's been replaced by meeting with real people.
June 2, 2021:
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A collective of creators is producing Spacecasts, a podcast containing the very best discussions from Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse. The Verge reports that creators will share in the revenue from the podcast.
May 17, 2021:
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Clubhouse is in significant decline, says WARC. Downloads are down 90% from February. It's now rolling out on Android globally.
May 14, 2021:
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Here's how to use Clubhouse as a podcaster, write Squadcast. The app is now rolling to Android users outside the US.
May 12, 2021:
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Listeners are fine hearing ads in their podcasts, says some new research from Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights. The data also says Clubhouse over-indexes for podcast users, and the pandemic helped accelerate listening.
May 10, 2021:
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Clubhouse is now available on Android, in the US only. The Android app is missing a number of features from the live audio company's iOS app.
May 6, 2021:
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Clubhouse has introduced their Creator First Finalists, shows to be hosted live on Clubhouse.
April 30, 2021:
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Spotify's recently-acquired Clubhouse-like service, Locker Room, is to be called Spotify Greenroom, Daniel Ek announced in the For The Record podcast. “The opportunity in live, just from a consumer standpoint, is how can we create really engaging formats to allow these creators to express themselves and connect with their audience. And we've been watching this space from afar just feeling very, very excited about the potential opportunity.”
April 26, 2021:
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NFL is to host a set of official rooms on Clubhouse this week, around the 2021 NFL Draft. It's the first "official programming" on Clubhouse from any major sports league.
April 19, 2021:
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Facebook is coming. The social media giant is to get into audio and podcasts, according to Recode. Announcements are due today; it describes "a podcast discovery product that will be connected with Spotify", as well as an audio-only version of 'Rooms', a separate Clubhouse-like product, and a way for Facebook users to add voice messages to the newsfeed.
April 12, 2021:
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1.3m scraped user records from Clubhouse have been 'leaked online'. Clubhouse say it's all public information anyway, 'which anyone can access'.
April 8, 2021:
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Facebook is testing Hotline, a Clubhouse-like service. Meanwhile, it's emerged that Twitter thought about buying Clubhouse for $4 bn.
April 6, 2021:
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Clubhouse has announced Clubhouse Payments, a tipping feature. Clubhouse themselves will not take a cut; they'll charge the person sending the money Stripe's transaction fee.
April 5, 2021:
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Twitter has enabled more users, on both Android and iOS, to start their Clubhouse-like Twitter Spaces discussions. Meanwhile, Clubhouse downloads have slumped over the past few weeks.
March 31, 2021:
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Spotify has bought Locker Room, an iOS-only live sports audio app. Like Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces, it will let anyone host audio conversations. It's to rebrand under a new name, and Gustav Söderström, chief R&D officer at Spotify, hints at integration with Anchor and Spotify's podcasts.
March 25, 2021:
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Clubhouse is male and under 35, says Signal Hill Insights in the first piece of research in its users that we've seen. However, fewer than 20% of Canadian adults have even heard of it (far less using it); and even the people who use it don't think it's going to be a big success.
March 22, 2021:
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Want to record Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces? Rob Greenlee links to the right cables and things you need.
March 8, 2021:
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The Verge takes a look at Fireside - the Mark Cuban Fireside, not the Dan Benjamin Fireside - with some screenshots of what's to come.
March 5, 2021:
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On Clubhouse, and quoted in Recode, Guy Raz says: "If I was starting a podcast today — I wouldn’t start a podcast, I would just come right here [to Clubhouse]." Thankfully, Guy Raz has restored our faith in him by clarifying what he meant on Twitter: "If you just want to broadcast your voice quickly without friction (or production), much easier to just go on Clubhouse than start a podcast. A produced audio show? No. A podcast is still better." Phew.
March 2, 2021:
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Listeners want to go to ONE place for everything, be it Clubhouse or Spotify or whatever, says Eric Nuzum in his latest newsletter.
February 26, 2021:
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A website rebroadcasting Clubhouse chats has been shut down, just one of many security issues with the service. It is also being threatened for closure in Indonesia (population 270m). German newspaper Zeit Online is holding its morning news conference on the service. (via Splice Slugs)
February 18, 2021:
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Will Clubhouse kill podcasting? On his personal blog, our Editor has some thoughts.
February 16, 2021:
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Clubhouse users might be sending raw audio and user data to the Chinese government, it's been claimed. The app uses a Chinese company, Agora, for their voice conferencing service: that company denies there's an issue.
February 12, 2021:
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Podland, the weekly podcast with James Cridland and Sam Sethi, has interviews with an author of a new book about Spotify; Wayne Parker from podcast location service Maps․fm, and news of a new Clubhouse-a-like.
February 9, 2021:
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Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi are co-founding a “next-gen podcast platform” where hosts can talk to fans live and monetise their conversations, reports The Verge - it's said to be similar to Clubhouse but with the ability to record conversations. Cuban sold internet radio company broadcast·com to Yahoo for $5.7bn.
February 4, 2021:
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How to think about Clubhouse audio strategy (Pacific Content)
February 3, 2021:
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The Verge writes about Elon Musk's use of Clubhouse; meanwhile Matt Deegan says that Clubhouse isn't about audio. "At its worst, I’d say the content is basically the annoying self-promoters from LinkedIn given a microphone to talk to their echo-chamber," he says, before saying it's a good place for like-minded people to chat.
February 1, 2021:
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Clubhouse uses user IDs which increment, one by one, when new users register. That's how we know that they've got over 5.6m registered users and they're growing at ~20k users/hour.
January 15, 2021:
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Podland this week features a look at Clubhouse, interviews with Adelicious, the BBC World Service, and sponsor Buzzsprout has some detail on their dynamic content feature. It's hosted by Sam Sethi and Podnews's Editor, James Cridland. Come and find out why it's the #23 news commentary podcast in Slovenia.
January 14, 2021:
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Justin Jackson from Transistor has played with both Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces. Which does he think is better? And which is likely to be better for podcasters?
January 6, 2021:
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Will Clubhouse kill podcasting? Tom Webster's personal email says no… but.
January 5, 2021:
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Culver says in a tweet that she is "joining Twitter to help build @TwitterSpaces", which describes itself as "a small experiment focused on the intimacy of the human voice". Launched on Dec 18, Spaces sounds similar to Clubhouse and features live audio (with live transcripts). It has a signup form if you want to try and get early access.
January 4, 2021:
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Tom Webster is on Clubhouse, and reckons he's hit on a tweak to make it suck less. (James Cridland, Podnews's Editor, is there too.)